Resources

On this page you will find external information resources that can help you in the development of an MSX project.

About development using MSXgl

• Articles:
  • Let's Start Game Programming with MSXgl by HSK (Japanese)
  • Writing an MSX2 game… in 2023 – PART 1 (using MSXgl) by Jacco Bikker
  • Programming on MSXgl and V9990 by Andrés De Pedro (Spanish)
  • Articles about MSXgl in Future Disk 48 & 49
  • Articles by MoltSXalats:
    • MSXgl: Introduction and Migration Guide
    • Animations with the MSXgl Pawn Module
    • Understanding an Animated Sprite in MSX2 with MSXgl

• Source exemples:
  • MSXgl's samples
  • Crawlers
  • Room 5
  • Peng Pong
  • Chrono Runners

About the MSX development in general

• MSX Assembly Page by Grauw:
  • collection of online MSX resources (BIOS, MSX-DOS, VDP...)
  • collection of articles about MSX programming (tutorials and tips)

• MSX Resource Center wiki's "programming" section
• MSX game making-of:
  • The Making Of Bombaman, Team Bomba (2003)
  • Procedural Content Generation in XSPelunker, Santiago Ontañón (2017)
  • Raycasting in Tales of Popolon, Santiago Ontañón (2017)
  • Smooth Scroll in XRacing, Santiago Ontañón (2019)
  • The Flag Effect in XRacing, Santiago Ontañón (2019)
  • Quick Technical Overview of The Menace from Triton, Santiago Ontañón (2020)
  • Making of DICED – Tournament, DefDanny (2022)
  • Freedom Fighter smooth scrolling, Giuseppe Ettore "thegeps" Pintus (2022)
  • Under The Hood - Lilly's Saga - The stones of Evergreen, Fabulous 8bit (2023)
  • Rendering for DELTA – 3D on MSX2, by Jacco Bikker (2026)
• MSX game creators:
  • Santiago Ontañón's blog
  • Bengalack's blog

About C development

• SDCC: SDCC Compiler User Guide
• Other C library:
  • Fusion-C 1.2 (C library for SDCC compiler).
  • libmsx (C library for SDCC compiler).
  • sdcc_stdio (stdio lib implementation for SDCC compiler for CP/M-80).